PC Gaming
Long-time Microsoft Gaming boss Phil Spencer has retired, and Xbox president Sarah Bond has resigned. Filling their shoes will be Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty, who has been promoted to chief content officer, and a newcomer to Microsoft’s gaming division, Asha Sharma, who will take over for Spencer as the new CEO of Microsoft…
As you may have heard, Roblox is big—but the scale of the platform’s dominance over the attention span of a significant portion of the world’s populace can be hard to comprehend. Thankfully, a report on 2025 games industry trends from analyst Matthew Ball puts Roblox’s relative prominence in concrete terms. And that prominence is, well,…
Nobody could’ve guessed that Diablo 2: Resurrected would get a surprise expansion drop with a new class in the year 2026, but here we are. That also means the 26-year-old game will have to deal with a major shake-up to its meta, with the warlocks taking over as not only the new flavor of the…
Battlefield 6 is pretty awesome, unless you happen to be in a jeep. The LGT (light ground transport), Battlefield 6’s most plentiful vehicle, is a failure on every level. “It is so bad at its one job—safely transporting—that it’s not unusual to watch your team ignore a fleet of free jeeps and choose to hoof…
We sometimes say “it’s the end of an era” to mark a notable occasion of one sort or another, and sometimes it’s warranted and sometimes, not so much. In this case, though, it really is the end of an era: A Variety report says that after nearly 40 years at the company, Microsoft Gaming CEO…
I’m not sure this really needs to be said out loud, but Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said it out loud in a new interview with Variety and so we’re spreading the word: Yes, new Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry games are in development. “We have a solid pipeline underway across Vantage Studios,” Guilemot said. “Under…
The supremely ugly situation of politics these days has put me off most forms of political pop culture. I don’t want to watch movies about fictional presidents, I don’t want to watch TV shows about the government, and I sure as heck don’t want to play games about political wheeling and dealing. At least until…
Man I just love a game where I move all my little stuff around on my little shelves. I adored the tactile fiddling about in Potion Craft and sorting my store shelves in Tiny Bookshop—though I did skip Unpacking for some reason—and upcoming funky shop sim Thrifty Business is right at the pinnacle of that…
Arc Raiders is home to some of the nicest players I’ve come across in a multiplayer game. From players teaming up together to take out huge arcs to the emergence of “care bear lobbies”, which even surprised the devs. I’m not saying everyone in this game is a saint, but there certainly are some who…
Discord’s age verification rollout has been met with… shall we say, dismay by many users of the platform, with many hunting for a better, more privacy-focused alternative. The news was even less well-received when Discord informed some UK users that they may be part of an “experiment” with an age verification provider called Persona, the…